(MENAFN - Daily News Egypt) Egyptian Ministry of Transport signed on Tuesday an EGP 22bn agreement of supplying and manufacturing 1300 new railway passenger vehicles, in what might be considered the biggest deal in country railway history. Moreover, Arafat highlighted that the 1300 new railway cars equal 34% of all Egyptian railway vehicles. He added that the ministry is planning to achieve its plan to improve Egypt's railway infrastructure by 2020. However, Egypt's railways have suffered for a long time from lacking any safety standards through successive governments. The Badrashin accident is the latest in Egypt's railway crisis, which led to the killing of 15 and injuring 40 others.

Source: Daily News Egypt September 27, 2018 12:11 UTC